WINE MERCHANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wine merchant mean? 

• WINE MERCHANT (noun)
  The noun WINE MERCHANT has 1 sense:

1. someone who sells wine

  Familiarity information: WINE MERCHANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINE MERCHANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who sells wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

vintner; wine merchant

Hypernyms ("wine merchant" is a kind of...):

merchandiser; merchant (a businessperson engaged in retail trade)

 Context examples 

Here’s the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club-foot, and his abominable wife.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)